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Pietro Frosini, the Glossary

Pietro Frosini (9 August 1885 – 2 September 1951) professionally known mononymously as Frosini, was an Italian vaudevillian performer and composer, who was based in the United States, we was one of the first famous "stars of the accordion.".^[1]

23 relations: Accordion, American Accordionists' Association, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Arvid Franzen, Catania, Chromatic button accordion, Decca Records, Dichter und Bauer, Edison Records, Franz von Suppé, George V, Guido Deiro, Library of Congress, Milan Conservatory, Phonograph cylinder, Piano accordion, Polka, San Francisco, Sicily, Sound film, Thomas Edison, Victor Talking Machine Company, WOR (AM).
Italian accordionists
Italian vaudeville performers
Musicians from Catania
Polka musicians

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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American Accordionists' Association

The American Accordionists' Association (AAA) is an American association dedicated to players of the accordion.

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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores).

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Arvid Franzen

Arvid Franzen (1899–1961) was a Swedish-born accordionist and bandleader, whose live performances and numerous recordings made him a household name in Scandinavian communities throughout the United States. Pietro Frosini and Arvid Franzen are 20th-century accordionists and American accordionists.

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Catania

Catania (Sicilian and) is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population.

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Chromatic button accordion

A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged chromatically.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Dichter und Bauer

Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant) was in 1900, after composer Franz von Suppé's death, made into an operetta in 3 acts using music by him.

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Edison Records

Edison Records was one of the early record labels that pioneered sound recording and reproduction, and was an important and successful company in the early recording industry.

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Franz von Suppé

Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 181921 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Guido Deiro

Count Guido Pietro Deiro (1 September 1886 – 26 July 1950) was a famous vaudeville star, international recording artist, composer and teacher. Pietro Frosini and Guido Deiro are 20th-century accordionists, American accordionists, Italian accordionists, Italian emigrants to the United States and Italian vaudeville performers.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Milan Conservatory

The Milan Conservatory, also known as the Conservatorio di Milano and the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, is a college of music in Milan, Italy.

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Phonograph cylinder

Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after its creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.

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Piano accordion

A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ.

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Polka

Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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